Re: spread-sheet-widget is in debian unstable

[Ben Pfaff]

A while ago, when I wanted to write a new test that required some
programming, I wrote it in Python because it's more commonly available,
generally more user friendly, easier to read, etc.  I forgot to document
the new dependency.  I've fixed that now.

In the long run I hope to rewrite the existing build-time Perl code into
Python, but it's not a priority.

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:08:10AM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> A dependency on python (of any version) is something completely new to
> me.   Why are we dependent on that?  When did it happen?
> 
> J'
> 
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 01:11:15PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 01:53:08PM +0100, Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
>      > Hi Ben,
>      > 
>      > the spread-sheet-widget is in debian unstable!
>      > 
>      > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/spread-sheet-widget
>      
>      I did a build with pbuilder, with the intention of uploading.  The build
>      fails because python is not available.  It looks like python3 is getting
>      installed but not python2, and that only python2 is available by the
>      name "python".  I guess that PSPP should learn to work with python3, but
>      for now it's probably easiest to add a build dependency on python2.
>      
>      Thanks,
>      
>      Ben.
>      
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